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Mosaic'c background in First
Five
Santa Barbara County is a diverse community
with a rich history of alliances between public services and
private, nonprofit agencies.
Mosaic Network has worked with the First
5 program in Santa Barbara from the very beginning. We have
close working relationships with the Santa Barbara County
Children & Families Commission and local social service
providers.
In 2001 we started work with the evaluation
team at the University of California, Santa Barbara on an
information management system for First 5 children and families
programs. This prototype system was the first version of the
GEMS evaluation and funding management system now in place
at 65 of agencies in Santa Barbara.
GEMS was customized to meet the precise needs
of the Santa Barbara Children & Families Commission (SBCFC).
The county collects many different sources of data from different
programs. This data is in many different formats ranging from
hand entered forms to scanned standardized measures and county
mainframe data.
Also, the county and State require different
output/report formats including fixed format state reports,
routine analyses, and customized data analyses.
Mosaic Network systems in Santa Barbara help
bridge projects within the community through communication
and comprehensive evaluation. GEMS provides:
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mechanisms to ease data management |
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automated electronic data transfer |
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back-up |
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billing processes |
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opportunities for users to self evaluate |
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customizable features |
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full encryption to maintain watertight security |
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